[PATCH] D132851: Further update -Wbitfield-constant-conversion for 1-bit bitfield

Bjorn Pettersson via Phabricator via cfe-commits cfe-commits at lists.llvm.org
Thu Sep 1 04:58:27 PDT 2022


bjope added inline comments.


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Comment at: clang/test/Sema/constant-conversion.c:30
+  s.b = 1;     // one-bit-warning {{implicit truncation from 'int' to a one-bit wide bit-field changes value from 1 to -1}}
+  s.b = true;  // no-warning (we suppress it manually to reduce false positives)
+  s.b = false; // no-warning
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(Sorry for being late to the party, with post commit comments. I'm just trying to understand the reasoning about always suppressing the warning based on "true".)

Isn't the code a bit suspicious when using true/false from stdbool.h, while using a signed bitfield?

When doing things like 
```
(s.b == true) ? 1 : 0
```
the result would always be zero if s.b is a signed 1-bit bitfield.

So wouldn't it make more sense to actually use an unsigned bitfield (such as the bool type from stdbool.h) when the intent is to store a boolean value and using defines from stdbool.h?

Is perhaps the idea that we will get warnings about `(s.b == true)` being redundant in situations like this, and then we do not need a warning on the bitfield assignment? Such a reasoning would actually make some sense, since `(s.b == true)` never would be true even when the bitfield is assigned a non-constant value, so we can't rely on catching the problem by only looking at bitfield assignments involving true/false.


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